Greg Stafford

Greg Stafford is the creator of the Glorantha game world, codesigner of the RuneQuest, Pendragon, and HeroQuest role-playing systems, founder of Chaosium and Issaries, author of the White Bear and Red Moon and Nomad Gods board games, and codesigner of the King of Dragon Pass computer game. He is a practising shaman, and until recently lived in Mexico, tutoring English as a foreign language and exploring places of archeological interest.

Born in 1948, Greg Stafford spent a lot of time reading about mythology. During his freshman years he read anything he could find on the subject, and when he exhausted the libraries, he started to write his own stories. This was the start of the world of Glorantha.

Around 1974, Stafford created White Bear and Red Moon, a Board Game about the struggle of several people in the area of Dragon Pass, but in essence the conflict between the Lunar Empire end the barbarian Kingdom of Sartar and their allies, all set in the world of Glorantha.

Not able to find a publisher, Stafford founded a company of his own, Chaosium in 1975. When at the same time the game of Dungeons and Dragons became popular, people wanted to use the setting of White Bear and Red Moon in their role-playing games, and Chaosium published RuneQuest, written by "Steve Perrin, Ray Turney , and Friends."